Indeed... I was so grossly misquoted in a Frederick newspaper paper article
recently on mid-winter counts that I will never, ever speak with a member of
the press again, at least about birds & natural history.

It seems that even when staff writers interview birders they still get it
wrong - I think this has more to do with how young persons are taught
research & writing skills (they aren't!!!) these days than any one issue
with journalism.


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Frank Boyle
Rohrersville, MD

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-----Original Message-----
From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of John Sherwood
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 3:59 PM
To: 
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Post Article on Albatross--AKA Great Black-Backed Gull

The Post needs some avian education. First, it misidentified a Red Bellied
Woodpecker as a "Yellow Bellied Woodpecker" in its recent birding video:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2006/03/03/VI200603030079
7.html
  and now this:  Doesn't the Post have any birdheads on its staff? We're all
entitled to make some mistakes but this is getting absurd.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/11/AR2006031101
203.html  ANIMAL WATCH  Hooked Albatross Rescued From River Piling  Sunday,
March 12, 2006; Page C02       ALEXANDRIA, Union Street South, 700 block,
March 1. Animal control was asked to pick up an albatross that had a leg
stuck in a piling near a dock on the Potomac River. With the help of the
Alexandria Fire Department, animal control took a boat to the piling and
caught the bird, which had a fishhook stuck in its leg. The albatross was
taken to an animal hospital for treatment, then transferred to a wildlife
rehabilitator.